Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-09 Thread geni
2009/3/8 Erik Moeller : > 2009/3/7 Brian : >> Ultimately it does not seem reasonable to force the printing of a URL >> on non-hypertext mediums. > > I still believe we ought to avoid explicit distinction between media > forms because I think these distinctions are inherently fragile. CC-BY-SA-3.0

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-08 Thread Michael Snow
Erik Moeller wrote: > 2009/3/7 Brian : > >> Ultimately it does not seem reasonable to force the printing of a URL >> on non-hypertext mediums. >> > I still believe we ought to avoid explicit distinction between media > forms because I think these distinctions are inherently fragile. More im

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-08 Thread Ray Saintonge
Erik Moeller wrote: > My preliminary conclusion is that a simple, manageable attribution > model, while causing some short-term disruption, will widely be > considered not only acceptable, but preferable to complex attribution > models, in support of our mission to disseminate free information. > T

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-08 Thread John at Darkstar
I'm not sure if I would like to credit "Wikipedia" anyhow, Wikipedia is not the author even if tradition says you can give attribution to an encyclopedia in some countries. I think GFDL is better on this, even if the current practice on Wikipedia is crappy on attribution. The main authors of an art

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-08 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/8 Anthony : > On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > >> Crediting "Wikipedia" would never be acceptable under CC-by-SA, since >> existing contributions weren't made under a terms of service that >> required permission be granted for such attribution. > > > True, but would th

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-08 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > Crediting "Wikipedia" would never be acceptable under CC-by-SA, since > existing contributions weren't made under a terms of service that > required permission be granted for such attribution. True, but would the Creative Commons lawyers ag

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-08 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/8 John at Darkstar : > One person told me that attribution of a single article and a bigger > collection could be made different. That is, a single printed copy of an > article could use a credit of "Wikipedia" and a mirror on a website > could use a history link. We don't have to choose a "

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-08 Thread John at Darkstar
One person told me that attribution of a single article and a bigger collection could be made different. That is, a single printed copy of an article could use a credit of "Wikipedia" and a mirror on a website could use a history link. We don't have to choose a "one scheme fits all" -solution. joh

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-08 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/3/8 Milos Rancic : > > On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Erik Moeller wrote: > >> For example, if the survey had shown community credit to be highly > >> desired and not controversial at all, that would be interesting: We > >> could have a

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-08 Thread John at Darkstar
Some options may be out of the question due to local law. John Erik Moeller skrev: > 2009/3/7 Thomas Dalton : >> I'm curious, why did you include options that aren't actually >> available? No credit and credit to the community are clearly not in >> keeping with the license, so knowing who would ac

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-08 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/8 Milos Rancic : > On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Erik Moeller wrote: >> For example, if the survey had shown community credit to be highly >> desired and not controversial at all, that would be interesting: We >> could have an informed conversation about whether we should try to >> accomm

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-07 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Erik Moeller wrote: > > For example, if the survey had shown community credit to be highly > > desired and not controversial at all, that would be interesting: We > > could have an informed conversation about

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-07 Thread Milos Rancic
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Erik Moeller wrote: > For example, if the survey had shown community credit to be highly > desired and not controversial at all, that would be interesting: We > could have an informed conversation about whether we should try to > accommodate that model after all. As

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-07 Thread Brian
Just to be clear, my argument does not allow for 6. Just because an alternate compromise is possible does not imply that my argument allows for such a compromise. As another person said, its effectively just the first. On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 9:13 P

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-07 Thread Erik Moeller
2009/3/7 Brian : > Ultimately it does not seem reasonable to force the printing of a URL > on non-hypertext mediums. I still believe we ought to avoid explicit distinction between media forms because I think these distinctions are inherently fragile. When you take the printed book and read it on t

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-07 Thread Erik Moeller
2009/3/7 Thomas Dalton : > I'm curious, why did you include options that aren't actually > available? No credit and credit to the community are clearly not in > keeping with the license, so knowing who would accept them isn't > particularly useful (although I'm not sure it hurts). We tried to surf

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-07 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Brian wrote: > 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 at the re-user's option seems like a good compromise. Compromise? Between what two sides would that be a compromise? Might as well make it 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 at the re-user's option. Now there's a compromise, eh? LOL. Oh oh, he

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-07 Thread David Goodman
This is exactly the same as 1. The reuser always has the option of providing more information, upto and including the text of every version in the history. On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Brian wrote: > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Anthon

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-07 Thread Brian
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Anthony wrote: > >> A condorcet winner could probably be determined from the raw numbers, though. > > > Condorcet Ranking (for the enwiki data): > > 1) Link to the article must be given. > 2) Collective credit

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-07 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: > 1 beats 4: 69% > 4 beats 1: 21% > 1 not ranked: 0.9% > 4 not ranked: 4.4% > neither ranked: 4.4% > > -Robert Rohde > Pretty much the same for German. Between 70 and 80 percent, right at that gray area if this were an RfA. This should be fun

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-07 Thread Robert Rohde
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: >> > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Anthony wrote: >> > >> >> A condorcet winner could probably be determined from the raw numbers, >>

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-07 Thread Robert Rohde
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: >> > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Anthony wrote: >> > >> >> A condorcet winner could probably be determined from the raw numbers, >>

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-07 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Anthony wrote: > > > >> A condorcet winner could probably be determined from the raw numbers, > though. > > > > > > Condorcet Ranking (for the enwiki d

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-07 Thread Robert Rohde
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Anthony wrote: > >> A condorcet winner could probably be determined from the raw numbers, though. > > > Condorcet Ranking (for the enwiki data): > > 1) Link to the article must be given. > 2) Collective credit

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-07 Thread Robert Rohde
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Anthony wrote: > A condorcet winner could probably be determined from the raw numbers, though. Condorcet Ranking (for the enwiki data): 1) Link to the article must be given. 2) Collective credit (e.g. Wikipedia community). 3) Link to the version history must be

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-07 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Anthony wrote: > A condorcet winner could probably be determined from the raw numbers, > though. I should add that the choices are mostly not mutually exclusive. If someone felt strongly that an article should contain *both* a link to the article *and* a list of

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-07 Thread Anthony
Which[6] is interesting. Almost all responses were "no credit is needed" (453) or "full list of authors must always be copied" (322). 155 did not fill out Which[6] - presumably choices were left unranked when they were less acceptable than all the ranked choices, but this might be assuming too mu

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-07 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Baseline, maybe? From: Thomas Dalton To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Sent: Saturday, March 7, 2009 10:18:01 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps 2009/3/7 Erik Moeller : > The author attribution survey is now clo

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-07 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/7 Erik Moeller : > The author attribution survey is now closed. We have 1017 complete > responses.  I've posted results of the attribution data in the > following report: > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:Attribution_Survey_Results.pdf > > I've posted the raw data of the attributi

[Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-06 Thread Erik Moeller
The author attribution survey is now closed. We have 1017 complete responses. I've posted results of the attribution data in the following report: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:Attribution_Survey_Results.pdf I've posted the raw data of the attribution survey here: Respondents from En